SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. Our first fundamental step out the door was let’s build integrations to 50 different SaaS tools and to the big public cloud data warehouse providers. Is that not? Bob Moore: It absolutely is.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Adobe Creative Cloud. billion in 2017. Product-based.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

Today’s super dynamic B2B environment mandates everyone in the leadership to be more innovative to get things done! On the other hand, Evernote was launched in 2008 by Evernote Corporation. Cloud storage OneNote stores all the information, notebooks, and support documents, on the cloud.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. This is where the cloud meets. And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2019

We founded the company in 2008, which many of you who were around then know was a pretty difficult time to start a company. But, the fundraising in 2008, 2009 was pretty difficult. We also know that without a really strong management team and leadership team it’s hard to scale a business. Monica Enand: Yeah.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. So we launched the company in February of 2008. It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. We were profitable by 2009.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

Created in 2008 as a question and answer site by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, it has grown to become one of the primary technology communities on the web, and by far the largest corner of the Stack Exchange Network of sites, which collectively has more than 120 million monthly users. Building with – not for – community. Jordan: Cool.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

And like the modern cloud based CRM system was somewhat novel and new. They’re not replacing a license and maintenance-installed shrink-wrapped piece of software with that version, only in the cloud. But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. We were a full stack.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The keys to great leadership [18:24]. The challenge with all of this was, I was at university from 2005 to 2008, and we all know what happened in 2008. But in 2008, Cisco was offering a graduate sales academy based in Amsterdam. The keys to great leadership [18:24]. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. So that’s going to require solutions that are cloud based that you can spin up in a matter of days or weeks versus a matter of months or years. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

INTRO by Christian Lanng : We do cloud based splicing for the Fortune 5000. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A recent Gallup poll reported that June 2020 saw the most considerable drop in US employee engagement on record (more so than during the 2008 recession or after 9/11). Amazon, for instance, has 14 leadership principles , but the company has revisited and revised them multiple times over the years to ensure they’re still relevant.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We really wanted to simplify supply chains.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Salesforce was less than a decade old and cloud computing was still considered an emerging technology. Rian and I were astute enough to know that the cloud was going to be this transformative technology wave that was going to impact all sorts of industries,” said Jack. “We There was only one problem: this was at the end of 2008.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In particular, post-2008 when a SaaS solution with its OPEX offering stood out from the conventional CAPEX solutions. Case in point with Salesforce’s cloud CRM vs. SAP and Oracle’s on-site/perpetual license model. Originally this worked well. Today everyone offers a SaaS/OPEX solution and hacks no longer provide the desired results.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 1, 2018

Unlike landlines that charge a high monthly fee for each handset, most VoIP solutions are cloud-based. The company has been BBB accredited since 2008, with an A+ rating and 89 positive reviews. Nextiva’s basic cloud phone system starts at $19.95 stars and complaints about leadership issues. 3) Cost savings.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

. “Over time companies that want to dominate certain categories will need to think about building a platform” Over time a lot of companies that want to dominate certain categories or have a category leadership position will need to think about building a platform. But the way that you do it is in multiple stages.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ep 306: Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara as he takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provide an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. This episode is sponsored by Owl Labs.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies. And finally, before that, Amit was the founder and CEO at SparkThis, an outsource marketing and sales service for cloud companies. How does Amit approach the process of idea validation?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. So what this means is we replace traditional communications infrastructure that includes voice, video, contact centers, collaboration tools. Jonathan: And you describe yourself as a technologist first, or a business person? Jonathan : Right. Vlad : Really good way.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The cloud application service market remains a huge challenge for all newcomers. This view has been fostered by the rapid growth of many commodity-oriented SaaS companies and public cloud services. . According to IDC , cloud services market grew 28.6 A prime example of this pricing model is Amazon Cloud Server.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. Ryan Smith: Well, GitHub, we raised a series A in 2012, it was the largest series a since 2008, GitHub came out a month later and raised 100 million, and that was then the largest series A and then all hell broke loose in fundraise-.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Our company, we basically unified communications in the cloud. Now we building a lot of stuff, and then when we feel that it’s working, it’s a machine, we can bring… Mallun : We had some grownups in the company, but we started the company in 2008, and then took it public in 2011. Craig : Yeah.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And they used to buy a lot of hardware boxes and we said, “Can we turn that into a global service in the cloud that customers rent from us?” You need to hire a leadership team that’s better than you in everything you do.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. The company started back in 2007, 2008. We’re thinking already about what does that mean in terms of the leadership, the organizational structure that we need to have.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. This marks the company’s fifth annual in-depth look at the cloud computing industry. And guess were how many of them were private cloud unicorns? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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